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LOL....funny girl. But, why would oysters make you feel better? Was she being honest?
LOL....funny girl. But, why would oysters make you feel better? Was she being honest?
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OH, okay, now I understand. I thought you were worried about the worms in your compost, or something. The compost will actually put off heat...helps them to stay warm. I used to raise worms (for fishing) under my rabbits.
Eggg-zactly the truth.I have ba-zillions of worms, all flavours and sizes and colors.
I have thought several times of doing the fishing worm biz as a sideline of the chicken raising??
Big Daddy:
Some can stretch out to about 16"...chicken gaggers!!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_giant_worm_snakes_001.jpg
They sure work the raised bed boxes well.
The cost of worms any more...why the heck not.
BTW...the one in your hand is a biggun'
OH, okay, now I understand. I thought you were worried about the worms in your compost, or something. The compost will actually put off heat...helps them to stay warm. I used to raise worms (for fishing) under my rabbits.
Eggg-zactly the truth.I have ba-zillions of worms, all flavours and sizes and colors.
I have thought several times of doing the fishing worm biz as a sideline of the chicken raising??
Big Daddy:
Some can stretch out to about 16"...chicken gaggers!!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_giant_worm_snakes_001.jpg
They sure work the raised bed boxes well.
The cost of worms any more...why the heck not.
BTW...the one in your hand is a biggun'
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I used to be a stumpfarmer in North Idaho, but sold the stump farm & moved west.
Welcome to BYC!!!!!!!!
My family's been on this piece since either 1895, 1901, or 1905, depending on which relative you talk to. Olympia used to be as far back in the hills as you can get at sea level, and Union Mill was the biggest electric sawmill in the world for a while, and the forty I live on was where my great-grandfather kept his road-building draft horse team and the usual milk cows, chickens and pigs, and planted a half-acre of orchard. In my lifetime, we ran Holstein replacement heifers and a small meat herd until my sister and I got tired of walking backwards and used our 4-H money to buy beef heifers. Through the usual randomness of fate, 45 years later we've got a whole lot of Angus and black crosses and a little bunch of Shorthorns. Most of the black herd is on my BIL's family place.
And somebody named Judy, who I hear is around this place, is going to say "That sounds strangely familiar."
I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
My family's been on this piece since either 1895, 1901, or 1905, depending on which relative you talk to. Olympia used to be as far back in the hills as you can get at sea level, and Union Mill was the biggest electric sawmill in the world for a while, and the forty I live on was where my great-grandfather kept his road-building draft horse team and the usual milk cows, chickens and pigs, and planted a half-acre of orchard. In my lifetime, we ran Holstein replacement heifers and a small meat herd until my sister and I got tired of walking backwards and used our 4-H money to buy beef heifers. Through the usual randomness of fate, 45 years later we've got a whole lot of Angus and black crosses and a little bunch of Shorthorns. Most of the black herd is on my BIL's family place.
And somebody named Judy, who I hear is around this place, is going to say "That sounds strangely familiar."
I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
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Use the BYC uploader and check 'resize' and choose the avatar size... Pick your photo and upload to BYC. From your uploads page, find your new avatar... Save it to your computer (I have a 'pics resized' folder). Go to your Change Avatar and choose your photo from your 'resized pics' on your computer... Does that help or just make it worse?
maybe you already know this. 
I have several picture altering programs on my computer, and I have used them some. But some of the pictures still argue with me.
I think the problem is with the compression part of the program. I can't seem to get some pictures to compress. It makes me a little crazy, because it seems like should be a simple thing.
I know it works on some pictures though, just not all. Uf Da!!!!!
Haha! Uff da is right- hates the computers
bahaha!
Use the BYC uploader and check 'resize' and choose the avatar size... Pick your photo and upload to BYC. From your uploads page, find your new avatar... Save it to your computer (I have a 'pics resized' folder). Go to your Change Avatar and choose your photo from your 'resized pics' on your computer... Does that help or just make it worse?
I have several picture altering programs on my computer, and I have used them some. But some of the pictures still argue with me.
I know it works on some pictures though, just not all. Uf Da!!!!!
Haha! Uff da is right- hates the computers
Ok, for anyone following the bunny saga today...my son decided that "nick and nack" wouldn't work any more for names because "Nack is a girl name". So, we posted a poll to let BYCers choose the new names. PLEASE vote, we are going to use whatever name combo is ahead at 8pm.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=481526
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=481526
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My family's been on this piece since either 1895, 1901, or 1905, depending on which relative you talk to. Olympia used to be as far back in the hills as you can get at sea level, and Union Mill was the biggest electric sawmill in the world for a while, and the forty I live on was where my great-grandfather kept his road-building draft horse team and the usual milk cows, chickens and pigs, and planted a half-acre of orchard. In my lifetime, we ran Holstein replacement heifers and a small meat herd until my sister and I got tired of walking backwards and used our 4-H money to buy beef heifers. Through the usual randomness of fate, 45 years later we've got a whole lot of Angus and black crosses and a little bunch of Shorthorns. Most of the black herd is on my BIL's family place.
And somebody named Judy, who I hear is around this place, is going to say "That sounds strangely familiar."
I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
When I was nine or ten- first year 4Her, in any case- I was hired to lead a perfectly tame and friendly Brown Swiss Junior Yearling Heifer for the 4H-FFA state championship judging at Puyallup; her muzzle was right at my face level, and she'd been eating spent brewery solids and had the worst breath ever for a cow.
I showed Holsteins (see dairy replacement heifer business) and my last one was a gem; she would stop and set herself up without a hand on the lead. We kept her as a family milk cow for ages after, and finally sold her to some who'd just moved to Rochester and were looking for a good cow to be around little kids.
(To keep this on topic, I just came in from contriving a small door for feeding treats to chickens; Ian and Sylvia had to supervise the operation, which made it more of a challenge).
My family's been on this piece since either 1895, 1901, or 1905, depending on which relative you talk to. Olympia used to be as far back in the hills as you can get at sea level, and Union Mill was the biggest electric sawmill in the world for a while, and the forty I live on was where my great-grandfather kept his road-building draft horse team and the usual milk cows, chickens and pigs, and planted a half-acre of orchard. In my lifetime, we ran Holstein replacement heifers and a small meat herd until my sister and I got tired of walking backwards and used our 4-H money to buy beef heifers. Through the usual randomness of fate, 45 years later we've got a whole lot of Angus and black crosses and a little bunch of Shorthorns. Most of the black herd is on my BIL's family place.
And somebody named Judy, who I hear is around this place, is going to say "That sounds strangely familiar."
I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
When I was nine or ten- first year 4Her, in any case- I was hired to lead a perfectly tame and friendly Brown Swiss Junior Yearling Heifer for the 4H-FFA state championship judging at Puyallup; her muzzle was right at my face level, and she'd been eating spent brewery solids and had the worst breath ever for a cow.
I showed Holsteins (see dairy replacement heifer business) and my last one was a gem; she would stop and set herself up without a hand on the lead. We kept her as a family milk cow for ages after, and finally sold her to some who'd just moved to Rochester and were looking for a good cow to be around little kids.
(To keep this on topic, I just came in from contriving a small door for feeding treats to chickens; Ian and Sylvia had to supervise the operation, which made it more of a challenge).
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I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
When I was nine or ten- first year 4Her, in any case- I was hired to lead a perfectly tame and friendly Brown Swiss Junior Yearling Heifer for the 4H-FFA state championship judging at Puyallup; her muzzle was right at my face level, and she'd been eating spent brewery solids and had the worst breath ever for a cow.
I showed Holsteins (see dairy replacement heifer business) and my last one was a gem; she would stop and set herself up without a hand on the lead. We kept her as a family milk cow for ages after, and finally sold her to some who'd just moved to Rochester and were looking for a good cow to be around little kids.
(To keep this on topic, I just came in from contriving a small door for feeding treats to chickens; Ian and Sylvia had to supervise the operation, which made it more of a challenge).
Cow beer belches....yum.....LOL.
I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.
ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.
When I was nine or ten- first year 4Her, in any case- I was hired to lead a perfectly tame and friendly Brown Swiss Junior Yearling Heifer for the 4H-FFA state championship judging at Puyallup; her muzzle was right at my face level, and she'd been eating spent brewery solids and had the worst breath ever for a cow.
I showed Holsteins (see dairy replacement heifer business) and my last one was a gem; she would stop and set herself up without a hand on the lead. We kept her as a family milk cow for ages after, and finally sold her to some who'd just moved to Rochester and were looking for a good cow to be around little kids.
(To keep this on topic, I just came in from contriving a small door for feeding treats to chickens; Ian and Sylvia had to supervise the operation, which made it more of a challenge).
Jbear: I pmd you earlier....go and read please.....
Welcome to all the new folks!!!
My eldest DD spoke on chickens this morning at the WSU Extension's Livestock 101 class in Snohomish this morning. We mentioned BYC several times as a great source of poultry knowledge. A shout out to any of those folks if they are lurking somewhere out there!
Hope everyone enjoyed the sun yesterday and today! I over did it working in the yard yesterday and have muscles hurting that I forgot I had!!!!
Saw Tifsbroodybabes yesterday when she came by to pick up her 4 BLRW chicks. It was nice to see you again!
If any of the newbies are in need of chicks, you can look at what breeds we have in my signature. I do have a waiting list for a couple of the breeds, but let me know asap if you are interested in anything I have so I can get those eggs in the bator! Or, I can provide hatching eggs too.
But I have an issue with my breeding pens. So the family swears to me that everyone was laying daily while I was gone (out of town for 3 wks helping my mom for those who don't know), and since I got home late on Monday night, I have not gotten a single egg from 3 of my breeding pens! And none of those hens are broody or anything! No sign of anyone stealing eggs either. I'm totally stumped. And majorly bummed! Any ideas would be most welcome.
My eldest DD spoke on chickens this morning at the WSU Extension's Livestock 101 class in Snohomish this morning. We mentioned BYC several times as a great source of poultry knowledge. A shout out to any of those folks if they are lurking somewhere out there!
Hope everyone enjoyed the sun yesterday and today! I over did it working in the yard yesterday and have muscles hurting that I forgot I had!!!!
Saw Tifsbroodybabes yesterday when she came by to pick up her 4 BLRW chicks. It was nice to see you again!
If any of the newbies are in need of chicks, you can look at what breeds we have in my signature. I do have a waiting list for a couple of the breeds, but let me know asap if you are interested in anything I have so I can get those eggs in the bator! Or, I can provide hatching eggs too.
But I have an issue with my breeding pens. So the family swears to me that everyone was laying daily while I was gone (out of town for 3 wks helping my mom for those who don't know), and since I got home late on Monday night, I have not gotten a single egg from 3 of my breeding pens! And none of those hens are broody or anything! No sign of anyone stealing eggs either. I'm totally stumped. And majorly bummed! Any ideas would be most welcome.
ok i am not just convinced but am sure that i sat in the booth next to johnny depp. you can think i am crazy all i want but i cant come up with enough reasons for it not to... Occam's Razor.
I was having breakfast with my mom in the Davenport Hotel... which is apparently across from depp's supposedly most favorite bar to go to....
i know it is a long shot but too many things stick out like a sore thumb to me.
also it was 35degrees out this morning up there and he was wearing a short sleeved shirt...... that is not PNW attire....
I was having breakfast with my mom in the Davenport Hotel... which is apparently across from depp's supposedly most favorite bar to go to....
i know it is a long shot but too many things stick out like a sore thumb to me.
also it was 35degrees out this morning up there and he was wearing a short sleeved shirt...... that is not PNW attire....
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